Sierra Leone - Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports)

Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) in Sierra Leone was 45.90 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 60 years was 87.43 in 1965, while its lowest value was 32.20 in 2011.

Definition: Merchandise imports from high-income economies are the sum of merchandise imports by the reporting economy from high-income economies according to the World Bank classification of economies. Data are expressed as a percentage of total merchandise imports by the economy. Data are computed only if at least half of the economies in the partner country group had non-missing data.

Source: World Bank staff estimates based data from International Monetary Fund's Direction of Trade database.

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Year Value
1960 80.72
1961 84.76
1962 82.63
1963 83.98
1964 84.55
1965 87.43
1966 79.60
1967 81.83
1968 79.11
1969 74.96
1970 72.48
1971 73.55
1972 73.18
1973 75.03
1974 68.54
1975 58.39
1976 68.38
1977 60.48
1981 60.48
1982 67.79
1983 54.11
1984 53.12
1985 40.21
1986 54.39
1987 53.12
1988 53.12
1989 53.12
1990 66.62
1991 70.86
1992 69.02
1993 63.61
1994 68.13
1995 61.56
1996 63.90
1997 67.64
1998 73.51
1999 71.96
2000 86.48
2001 71.95
2002 65.16
2003 64.66
2004 59.06
2005 53.14
2006 44.46
2007 45.36
2008 47.59
2009 39.98
2010 38.04
2011 32.20
2012 34.28
2013 35.96
2014 40.63
2015 48.08
2016 50.07
2017 44.69
2018 43.48
2019 48.68
2020 45.90

Development Relevance: Low- and middle-income economies are an increasingly important part of the global trading system. Trade between high-income economies and low- and middle-income economies has grown faster than trade between high-income economies. This increased trade benefits both producers and consumers in developing and high-income economies.

Limitations and Exceptions: Data on exports and imports are from the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Direction of Trade database and should be broadly consistent with data from other sources, such as the United Nations Statistics Division's Commodity Trade (Comtrade) database. All high-income economies and major low- and middle-income economies report trade data to the IMF on a timely basis, covering about 85 percent of trade for recent years. Trade data for less timely reporters and for countries that do not report are estimated using reports of trading partner countries. Therefore, data on trade between developing and high-income economies should be generally complete. But trade flows between many low- and middle-income economies - particularly those in Sub-Saharan Africa - are not well recorded, and the value of trade among low- and middle-income economies may be understated.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports